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Afrobeat is a music genre that involves the combination of elements of West African musical styles such as fuji music and highlife with American jazz and later soul and funk influences,
with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.
The term was coined in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who is responsible for pioneering and popularizing the style both within and outside Nigeria.
Distinct from Afrobeat is Afrobeats – a sound originating in West Africa in the 21st century, one that takes in diverse influences and is an eclectic combination of genres such as highlife, hip hop, house, jùjú, ndombolo, R&B and soca.
The two genres, though often conflated, are not the same.
Seun Kuti during an Afrobeat performance Afrobeat was developed in the late 1960s led by Fela Kuti who, with drummer Tony Allen, experimented with different contemporary music of the time.
Afrobeat stemmed from Highlife, which began in Ghana in the early 1920s.
During that time, Ghanaian musicians incorporated foreign influences like the foxtrot and calypso with Ghanaian rhythms such as osibisaba （Fante）.
Yoruba percussion and vocal traditions were incorporated as well.
Highlife was associated with the local African aristocracy during the colonial period and was played by numerous bands including the Jazz Kings, Cape Coast Sugar Babies, and Accra Orchestra along the country's coast.
This was the music Fela Kuti and Tony Allen played and listened to when they were young.
In the late 1950s, Kuti left Lagos to study abroad at the London School of Music where he was exposed to jazz.
He returned to Lagos and played a highlife-jazz hybrid, albeit, without commercial success.
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